Principal Electrical Engineer - HV & EHV Power Infrastructure

Vantage powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Vantage powers, cools, protects, and connects the technology of the world's leading hyperscalers, cloud providers, and enterprises. Operating across North America and EMEA, Vantage develops and operates highly scalable, reliable, and sustainable data centre campuses designed to meet rapidly growing customer demand. At Vantage, we are committed to delivering industry-leading infrastructure through innovation, operational excellence, technical expertise, and a relentless focus on reliability, efficiency, sustainability, and customer success.

The Energy Department is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of power infrastructure required to support Vantage's growth across EMEA. This includes utility engagement, grid connection strategy, transmission and distribution infrastructure, substations, cable systems, energisation programmes, and integration of future energy technologies. The team is accountable for securing, designing, delivering, and energising the infrastructure that enables data centre capacity while ensuring compliance, reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.

Working across multiple countries and utility jurisdictions, the Energy team plays a critical role in enabling Vantage's continued expansion by delivering resilient power infrastructure solutions that support long-term business growth.

Vantage is seeking a highly experienced Principal Electrical Engineer - HV & EHV Power Infrastructure to provide technical leadership and engineering assurance for power infrastructure projects from concept and site development through to supporting the delivery and energisation of electrical infrastructure supporting data centre developments throughout EMEA. Reporting directly to the Senior Director, Energy Optimisation & Delivery, EMEA, this role will serve as a key technical authority within the Energy team, shaping engineering standards, technical strategy and the successful delivery of utility power infrastructure across Vantage's expanding regional portfolio.

The successful candidate will provide engineering oversight across utility connections, transmission and distribution networks, substations, cable systems, protection schemes and associated infrastructure. Working closely with utilities, transmission system operators, EPC contractors, OEMs, consultants and internal stakeholders, they will ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently and in accordance with Vantage standards. In addition, the role will drive engineering excellence through technical assurance, continuous improvement, standardisation, lessons learned and the evaluation of emerging technologies that support Vantage's long-term energy strategy.

The position can be based from either our London, our Newport United Kingdom or Frankfurt, Germany office, with regular travel across EMEA required to support utility engagement, design reviews, project delivery, commissioning and energisation activities.

• Serve as the technical subject matter expert for HV and EHV electrical infrastructure across EMEA projects.
• Develop, maintain, and continually improve Vantage engineering standards, specifications, and technical requirements.
• Provide independent technical review and assurance of electrical designs, studies, and engineering deliverables.
• Lead technical decision-making and challenge processes to ensure robust, scalable, resilient, and future-proof solutions.
• Drive engineering consistency across multiple countries, projects, and utility environments.
• Manage multidisciplinary technical reviews and design assurance processes.

• Conduct FEED, and review and oversee conceptual, preliminary, and detailed designs for:
  • Utility and grid connections
  • Transmission and distribution systems
  • HV and EHV substations
  • Underground and overhead cable systems
  • Protection and control schemes
  • Earthing and bonding systems
  • Power system studies
  • Power quality and network performance assessments
• Ensure engineering…